patches?

[conno]

Can soneone explain what they are for etc

[Toaster]

Hi there Conno, when games manuf decided to upset us making backups of their games, they started to put special code on the disk. So when you make a copy this code does not get copied over just a space where it should be.
Most CD/RW's see it as a bad sector.

The patch simply replaces the bad code for good code. Some patches add cheats and conversions to NTSC/PAL at the boot sequence also